Also interesting that the midwife give a different house number than the other record I posted where her brother was born at home the previous year. Is this likely a mistake by the midwife recording the birth or is there any indication that the child was born at someone else's house?

Also interesting that the midwife give a different house number than the other record I posted where her brother was born at home the previous year. Is this likely a mistake by the midwife recording the birth or is there any indication that the child was born at someone else's house?

Recorded on May 10, 1924 at 8:30am in the town hallThe official was Giuseppe Cavalli, lawyer and Mayor of San Giovanni La Punta

The informant Angela Scalini age 43 occupation midwife and residing in this town has declared that the birth occurred on May 8, 1924 at 110:10am in the home at Via Piano Lupo #13.

The mother is Maria Zappalà, a housewife, married to Carmelo Caruso, occupation shoemaker age 30 and living in this town.

The baby was of the feminine sex and named Giovanna

Witnesses were Alfio Ali age 46exact peasant farmer and Giovanni Scutoage 78 manual laborer. (These ages vary quite a bit from the ages of 50 and 70 for the birth the previous year. Was that common?)Yes, it was. The clerk sometimes just guessed the age of witnesses

Would love help with the next paragraph. I do see at the very end it has the standard boilerplate of stating it was read and those who were able to, the midwife, signed and the others were illiterate.it states the declarer was a witness of the birth, as it was her work, and she declared the birth, as the child's father was away from the village for work

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